Boris Malagurski
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Malagurski at the Raindance Film Festival
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| Born | 11 August 1988 Subotica, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Alma mater | University of British Columbia |
| Occupation | Filmmaker |
| Years active | 2005–present |
Boris Malagurski (Serbian Cyrillic: Борис Малагурски; born 11 August 1988) is a Serbian-Canadian film director, producer, writer, television host and activist.[1] He is the owner of the Malagurski Cinema production company, based in Vancouver, Canada.
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Background
Born to Branislav Malagurski and Slavica Malagurski, Boris grew up in the northern Serbian town of Subotica. In an interview for Literární noviny, Prague's cultural and political journal, Malagurski said that his last name originates from the Polish town of Mała Góra, noting that in the 17th century, a soldier from that town fought under the command of John III Sobieski against the Turks in the Battle of Senta and afterwards decided to stay in Subotica, which is now in the Serbian province of Vojvodina.[2]
Malagurski emigrated to Canada in 2005, (where he attended film school and remained for 6 years).[3] Since then, Malagurski identifies himself as Serbian Canadian.[4] Malagurski made a documentary film about his move from Serbia called The Canada Project. The film was shown on Serbian National Television, as a part of Mira Adanja-Polak's TV show.[5]
According to the Malagurski Cinema website, Malagurski has been a columnist with Kišobran (lit. Umbrella), a Serbian language monthly newspaper published in Vancouver.
Career
In 2009, Malagurski released Kosovo: Can You Imagine?, a documentary film about the plight of Serb communities living in Kosovo at that time. Former Canadian general Lewis MacKenzie, former Canadian diplomat James Byron Bissett, former UNMIK officer John Hawthorne and economist Michel Chossudovsky are interviewed in the film.
In 2010, he released The Weight of Chains, his documentary film analyzing the role that the United States, NATO and the European Union allegedly played in the breakup of Yugoslavia. In April 2012, Malagurski announced plans to produce a sequel The Weight of Chains 2[6] and the film was released in 2014 as a part of the Serbian Film Festival at Montecasino in Johannesburg, South Africa,[7]
Belgrade, (also known as Belgrade with Boris Malagurski), a documentary film about Belgrade, the capital of Serbia had its world premiere on 19 October 2013 at Sava Centar in Belgrade.[8]
Since January 2013, Malagurski has been the host of "Revolution" (Serbian: Револуција), a weekly TV show on Happy TV. The show, features documentary segments and interviews with state officials, foreign and local experts and ordinary citizens of Serbia.[9] [10]
Reception
The Serbian newspaper Politika described Malagurski as the "Serbian Michael Moore",[1] though Malagurski himself had spoken of his use of "Michael Moore post-production techniques", earlier in the same year.[11] The description was taken up by Press[12] and other media outlets in the region.
Controversies
In January 2013, Malagurski interviewed Vesna Kostić of the World Bank office in Belgrade for his show Revolution on Serbia's Happy TV. After the interview was broadcast, Kostić wrote a letter of complaint to the Association of Journalists of Serbia, arguing that Malagurski "forged" a conversation. According to Kostić, Malagurski "pasted" the answer to one question, into the response to a different question.[13]
Malagurski reacted by claiming on his Facebook page, that he "didn't forge anything", but that Ms. Kostic either "forgot how she answered the questions" or had "bad intentions". He also offered to show Vesna Kostić the unedited interview to prove he was right.[14] In the interview, Kostić said that the World Balk "financed the change of a law" in Serbia, which sparked a debate about the role of the World Bank in Serbia on social networks.[15][14]
Activism
Malagurski has written articles for the political magazine New Serbian political thought.[16][17][18] In October 2011, Malagurski showed his film The Weight of Chains at the Jarinje barricades on the Kosovo-Serbia border,[19] which he said was a show of support for the Serbs fighting for their rights in the disputed province.[20]
In June 2012, Malagurski took part in a protest in front of the Radio Television Serbia building, that called for an end to "organized media darkness" in Serbia and requested the airing of Malagurski's film The Weight of Chains on Serbia's public broadcaster.[21] In front of 200 protesters, Malagurski said that Aleksandar Tijanić, the director of RTS, had told him that despite positive reviews, The Weight of Chains couldn't be aired on RTS because it had already been aired on Happy TV, Malagurski claimed only clips had been shown, which he corroborated with documents from Happy TV.[22] Malagurski also claimed that "Serbia is the only country in the region and in almost all of Europe, where The Weight of Chains has not been shown by the national public broadcaster".[23]
Malagurski has given speeches about Balkan political issues, specifically on the future status of Kosovo.[24] These include student and public forums at the University of Belgrade and elsewhere.[25][26]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Director | Producer | Writer | Editor | Notes |
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| 2005 | The Canada Project | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
| 2009 | Kosovo: Can You Imagine? | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2011 | The Weight of Chains | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2012 | The Presumption of Justice | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Co-directed with Ivana Rajović |
| 2013 | Belgrade | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2014 | The Weight of Chains 2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Released on November 20, 2014[27] |
| Year | Title | Director | Host | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Revolucija (Season 1) | Yes | Yes | 20 episodes from January to June |
| Revolucija (Season 2) | Yes | Yes | 16 episodes from September to December | |
| 2014 | Revolucija (Season 3) | Yes | Yes | 12 episodes from January to present |
Festival screenings
- 2005 The Canada Project and Vreme Je in 'Young European Filmmakers' at the Palić Film Festival in Palić, Serbia[28]
- 2011 The Weight of Chains at the BELDOCS International Feature Documentary Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia,[29] Also, as part of 'Beldocs eho', in Novi Sad,[30][31] Zrenjanin, Kragujevac, Niš, Vršac and Aleksinac,[32] Serbia.
- 2011 The Weight of Chains in 'Balkan Cinema Strand' at the Raindance Film Festival, London, United Kingdom[33]
- 2011 The Weight of Chains at the Moving Images Film Festival, Toronto, Canada[34]
- 2011 The Weight of Chains at the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Havana, Cuba[35]
Awards
- 2009, Silver Palm Award (one of 14 films awarded in the Student Film category) for Kosovo: Can You Imagine? at the Mexico International Film Festival 2009, Rosarito, Mexico.[36][37]
References
- ^ a b Добри људи у злим временима | Good people in evil times Politika Newspaper, August 28, 2010
- ^ „Vítejte v Kosovu, vaše auto je už tady!“ Literární noviny
- ^ "2005. godine Boris je emigrirao u Kanadu " Subotica.com
- ^ Srpsko-kanadski režiser Boris Malagurski Alo novine
- ^ Mira Adanja-Polak and You June 5, 2005
- ^ Nema povlačenja, nema predaje Politika
- ^ The Serbian Film festival at Montecasino
- ^ RTS Dnevnik 19. oktobar 2013, Radio Television Serbia, 2013.
- ^ The Revolution of Boris Malagurski on Happy TV Story.rs
- ^ Malagurski: It's time to sober up Večernje novosti
- ^ Interview with Boris Malagurski on his new film Novine Toronto | March 26, 2010
- ^ New documentary by the Serbian Michael Moore Press newspaper
- ^ "Letter of the World Bank Office in Serbia to UNS". Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS). Retrieved 5 November 2014.
- ^ a b "Boris Malagurski replies to Vesna Kostic on his Facebook page". Facebook. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
- ^ Revolucija TV show, Happy TV, aired January 26, 2013
- ^ Битка је у нама Борис Малагурски, НСПМ | 1 November 2010
- ^ Дневник 2010 Борис Малагурски, НСПМ | 19 October 2010
- ^ Моја држава, моја револуција Борис Малагурски, НСПМ | 14 October 2010
- ^ Using alternative paths to get to North Kosovo Politika, October 31, 2011[dead link]
- ^ We're afraid of Belgrade, not KFOR Pravda newspaper, October 30, 2011
- ^ Protest ispred RTS-a RTS
- ^ RTS odbio da prikaže film Težina lanaca Kurir
- ^ "Protest ispred zgrade RTS - Internet Archive". pravda.rs. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
- ^ "Kosovo and Metohija in the light of international law" Forum at the Assoc. of Students of Univ. of Belgrade Law Faculty
- ^ "Kosovo - Where is the solution?"
- ^ "How to get over stereotypes of bad boys" at F@M Sremski Karlovci
- ^ The Serbian Film festival at Montecasino Hotel, Johannesburg
- ^ Young European Filmmakers Palić International Film Festival, 2005
- ^ Težina lanaca: Kritika uloge NATO, EU i SAD i raspadu SFRJ BELDOCS 2011
- ^ Festival of documentary film at Novi Sad Cultural Centre 021.rs
- ^ The Weight of Chains in Novi Sad Radio Television Vojvodina
- ^ "BELDOCS" on a tour throughout Serbia B92.net
- ^ [1] Raindance Balkan Cinema Strand 2011
- ^ [2] MIFF Schedule, End of World Showcase
- ^ "El peso de las cadenas" Festival Internacional Del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano
- ^ "2009 winners of Silver Palm". Mexico International Film Festival. Retrieved 6 September 2014.
- ^ RTV - Film Borisa Malagurskog nagrađen na festivalu u Meksiku, Radio Television Vojvodina, May 11, 2009
External links
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to Boris Malagurski. |
- Official websites
- Boris Malagurski at the Internet Movie Database
- Official website of Malagurski Cinema
- Official website of "Kosovo | Can You Imagine?"
- Official website of "The Weight of Chains"
- Official website of "Belgrade"
- Print media interviews
- The Unbearable Lightness of the Truth Pečat Magazine, May 2011
- Let's tickle The Imagination of Tourists Politika, October 2011
- Capitalism is Robbing Serbia Blic, December 2011
- People are Blind from Illusions Večernje novosti, December 2011
- Yugoslavia was a Predecessor of the EU Javno, February 2012[dead link]
- No Retreat, No Surrender Politika, April 2012
- I Want to Work in Serbia Večernje novosti, June 2012
- A Film About Brice Taton Politika, June 2012
- Films
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